CREATED BY A SPARK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17159, 1 October 1923, Page 6

CREATED BY A SPARK.

STARTLING THEORY OF MAN’S ORIGIN. A theory of man's origin that is likely to cause as great a scientific controversy as that which followed the publication of Darwin's “ Origin of Species ” was unfolded by Dr G. W. Crile. an eminent specialist in CleveOhio, at the International Congress of Surgeons in London, says an English paper. Dr Crile's theory is that, the origin of all life forms was an atom of hydrogen with a negative electron (one of the particles which are the cause of all electrical phenomenal. "Life.” he declared, "is a flame burning in water.” The origin of all life forms was an atom of hydrogen with a negative electron. Dr Crile threw on the screen twenty-four pictures to illustrate his argument—first the spark, the hydrogen, man’s great beginning; then the spark with the negative electron, the source of an energy which, he held, came not from heat,_ r.or light, nor gravitation. " N ow. ’ said the learned doctor, showing red and yellow splash on the screen, “the living process begins at the point where the potential is developed. and that is developed where there is an intervening membrane, with conductivity.” Even learned professors caught their breath when he said that the membrane which separated the chemical flame from the electric force was one ten-millionth of a centimetre in thickness. Thus did man, who is now a composition of trillions of these first gas atoms, begin his career through the vastness of time

Thc surgeons saw how thc Divine} spark deve‘mpml into the amneha (the l Stage at. whirl) inorganic (theniistry he- I herame organimi into the StaLrfiSlL the i insect. the: oiectric fish. the salan‘ianller. l the emphibioxns [a law forxzn of fish}, I until at last “e ramo to man himself. 5 “ And we. ourselves" said Dr ('ri‘e,§ “are slowly climbing up the slinpct'y§ banks of time." So he arrived at his great hypothesis that “man and (mi-l mals are electrochemical mechanisms constructed on the pattern of the (1011— . stituent 02115. each cell being in itself an elevtro-chemiwal mechanism." Thati is, man is a roilection of countless; mil- l lions of cheniivnl fianies‘ Working outl still further evolution in bonnection l with surrounding electric forces. [ml the beginning a fleck of burning gasil “ Tt does not yet appear what wt: shall 3 be," said Dr (Wile. The theory that man is an elevtmchemical mechanism explains many of the phenomena of life. “ Following that theory. the positive pole is the brain; the. negative is the liver: the connecting wire: the nerves: the salts in solution the electrolytic fluid in which the body is immersed The function of the liver is of iorrmusi iinportanue in this hypothesis. aml the effects of that organ or the brain, whether in sickness l or health, are at once apparent. l “The theory explains the interference with digestion by the strong emotions—pain, for example. It ex» plains the effects of fear and faith, and the failure of the health in man and animal uxlder"the stress of chronic fear or anger or other strong emotion. It also explains the essential function of sleep as the period during which‘ the difference in potential in the batteries which drive the organism is restored after being decreased by the activities i of the day-.-